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minus-squarerockerface 🇺🇦@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up63arrow-down2·15 hours agoMe when languages from different groups have different words for an object
minus-squarejanNatan@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up12·13 hours agoActually, English is a Germanic language. However, you are right that this specific word in English is not Germanic.
minus-squarerockerface 🇺🇦@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up6·9 hours agoEnglish is a chimera that ate the faces of 3 other languages and wears their skins
minus-squarerustydrd@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3·8 hours agoEnglish is the Dawson’s Creek Trapper Keeper Ultra Keeper Futura S 2000 of languages.
Me when languages from different groups have different words for an object
Handshoes
bless you
Actually, English is a Germanic language. However, you are right that this specific word in English is not Germanic.
English is a chimera that ate the faces of 3 other languages and wears their skins
English is the Dawson’s Creek Trapper Keeper Ultra Keeper Futura S 2000 of languages.
Most words in English aren’t.
Those damn French.